Quotes About Construction

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a practical knowledge of the construction of small lakes was part of the equipment of most countrymen. Many of the holes they dug and dams they built still hold water and are now often regarded as 'natural.' They are of immeasurable value in the landscape.

Where the road was broken, its edges had cracked and meltd where the Technomancer had pulled her Tower from the earth, interrupting its symmetry.

The way corals change the world—with huge construction projects spanning multiple generations—might be likened to the way that humans do, with this crucial difference. Instead of displacing other creatures, corals support them.

Do not trust an architect: he will always try to talk you into an atrium.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

fue Almanzor quien acabó de construir la mezquita de Córdoba;

How do they know what to do?" Mary Frances said. "To just rip into a building like that and expect it to stay standing." "For the parts you want to stay standing," Tim said. "Exactly." "Practice," Al said. "And of course, one of them is in charge." Mary Frances studied the tangle of men, all dressed alike, movingly easily together. "I can't tell them apart." "Well, it's like war, I guess," Al said. "If you knew whom to blame, it'd be too easy to shoot him.

use a dor para se construir, não para se destruir, e saiba sempre que quem vence sem riscos triunfa sem glórias. Tinham de ser tolerantes e não ter medo de serem execrados por andarem com corruptos, imorais e pecadores.

Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.

In broad terms, culture may be viewed as the symbolic construction of the vast array of a social group's life experiences. Culture is the embodiment, the chronicle of a group's history

In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction.

In the mid-1990s, when Russia was undergoing a construction boom, I entered the real estate development market.

I fell in love with real estate, renovations, and became a licensed contractor when I was 26.

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

Construction cumbers the ground with institutions made by busybodies. Destruction clears it and gives us breathing space and liberty.

Ships, certainly, are liable to casualties, which sometimes make terribly evident some flaw in their construction that would never have been discoverable in smooth water; and many a "good fellow," through a disastrous combination of circumstances, has undergone a like betrayal.

Moreover, a building is constructed by man, but a flower is made by God.

Paul Poiret did wonderful things because he was so influenced by motifs, but Vionnet really understood the kimono and took the geometric idea to construct her clothes - and that brought such freedom into European clothes in the 1920s.

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

I am quite handy; not to sound bragadocious, but I've been working with wood and building things my entire life. I used to be a skateboarder and built ramps with my father. Then, the first two years I lived in Los Angeles, I worked as a carpenter building sets.

I've built two wooden houses near Vals. I built them for my wife. Those were private projects.